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Im planning on adding a leather wrap on my large lever on my Henry 44 mag. I've heard it could make it rust underneath over time. I was thinking what about if I cleaned it very well prior to adding the leather wrap and then applying a light coat of something like renaissance wax to it prior to...

Yesterday when I was at the range shooting over at the shotgun targets on the ground beneath the targets was a lot of lead shot just laying on the ground from years of people shooting at these targets. I decided to scrape a bunch up with some cardboard and put in a container and bring home. When...

I got a modified case made for my mosin nagant 7.62x54R. Hornady made it for me from a case I shipped to them and then they shipped back when done. Today I tried to use it with some bullets I just got. The issue is these bullets don't slide into the modified case. Did I do something wrong with...

When resizing my 9 mm bullets some of the powder coat came off. However the base of the bullet is still covered. Should I do another coat on top of them I've never done a double coat before? Or load them up as is?

I casted a few hundred 9 mm bullets to pass day or two today when I tested the hardness with my Lee tester they measured 24.8 bhn and 27.2 bhn seemed a little hard especially for 9 mm Target rounds will these be okay as long as they fit my bore properly? Hopefully I didn't waste my time doing them.

Im casting some 9mm bullets for my S&W Shield. I just slugged my barrel by pushing soft lead thru the barrel from muzzle to chamber and then measured the groove dia. My groove dia. was between .353'' - .354'' using a caliper. I know they are not the best choice to measure groove dia. but thats...

My Mauser has apin in the rear sight leaf. I took it out but still had to remove the sight leaf by putting hard pressure downward on it and pushing it forward to take off. So what was the point of this little pin in the rear sight leaf. Seems it wasn't even holding anything? Am I wrong? The...

Trying to remove the rear sight of my Mauser. There is a small pin I'm trying to remove does anyone know what size punch I need? I don't know anything about Mausers this is my first time working on this type of rifle. Does this pin actually have to be removed? I seen some videos where people...

Not sure of the type of Mauser I have but the rifle band spring is missing. A piece of it is still stuck in the stock. What type of spring do I need? I did an online search and there are all different kinds. Here are some pictures of my rifle if it helps.

I received this 7 mm Mauser off my uncle don't know much about it neither does he. The front sight is pushed far to the right I'm guessing due to the fact that the rear sight is canted to the right as well. I can't figure out why the site is canted to the right I can push it to the left but when...

I just purchased these Hornady 174gr round nose bullets online and will have them soon. The powders I have on hand are Varget and IMR4895. My manual has data for both. What would you recommend I try between the two? I'll eventually try both to see what works best but just curious. I slugged my...

I have a Mosin Nagant that I would like to reload cast bullets for. My bore was slugged to .313" My current Lee die set has an expanding ball that I measured out to be .308" I was planning on casting bullets sized to .314" as that would make my bullets 1,000th larger to my bore. My question...

Today I slugged my mosin nagant. It measured .313" Where can I find bullets sized .314" ?

I've had my mosin for years now. just the other day I found a pair of Lee dies used for $19 so decide to pick them up. Any recommendations suggestions for type of powder I should use? Bullet weight type? Hunting purposes. Any tips on reloading procedures? I've only ever loaded for my ..308...

I have close to 500 lb of pure lead melted down and cleaned up and poured into ingots. This pure lead was from old water pipe and is very soft. I would like to harden it up to shoot the following calibers 9mm, .45, .44mag, .38/357, and .40 How much of "what" do I mix with how much of my pure...

I have 6 pounds of CFE powder and 124 gr. Sig v-crown bullets but cannot find any load data in my five manuals for CFE. I even went online to the website with no luck can anyone help me? There might be better powder options to use however I have 6 lb of CFE so I would like to use it.

Some of the 308 brass I have has these little dents on the shoulder will they be an issue? The brass is once fired but not from me. What could have caused these dents?

I snapped a bolt off on my bullet mold, I had a machinist take it out for me he had to manufacture a new bolt. He said he's it's going to cost me $115!!!! does this seem ridiculous it does to me or am I just clueless. Would you pay this price? I could buy two. New molds for this price.

Just getting into rifle reload and started trimming some 308 brass today. I'm trying to trim to 2.005 however when I go to measure them they are 2.006 or 2.004 or 2.007 give or take a thousandths or two up or down. Sometimes I noticed that if I spin the case around in the calipers the length...

I just sorted some .308 brass that I have by head stamp markings. Here is what I have. Anyone have the good ,bad or ugly on any of these head stamps? Ones that are best or ones to avoid? I'm new to rifle reloading and could use any insight on this. I'll soon trim to a uniform length and load...